Author/Editor: John Romalis, Mary Amiti.

Release Date:January, 2006

This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less more...

Author/Editor: Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei.

Release Date:December, 2005

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of more...

Author/Editor: Mary Amiti, Jozef Konings.

Release Date:July, 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods more...

Author/Editor: Mary Amiti, Shang-Jin Wei.

Release Date:October, 2004

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries more...

Author/Editor: Mary Amiti, Lisa Ann Cameron.

Release Date:May, 2004

The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of more...

Author/Editor: Mary Amiti.

Release Date:April, 2004

This paper analyzes whether uniform tariffs give rise to the highest welfare compared with tariffs that either escalate or de-escalate along the value chain of production. We show that countries may more...